That is 193 km per hour in other speak,i would challenge any one to take their car and give it a go,im sure it would need more than a front bumper and headlights to be road worthy again.
friendly_prawn,
Jan 13, 1:39pm
thats the sort of things teens need to realise. they should be shown a video clip of crashes like that with a dummy inside, then shown just how hard it would be to extract the body/dummy afterwards. It might make them realise that cars aren't suits of armour.
casper35,
Jan 13, 1:57pm
I totally agree.
richard198,
Jan 13, 2:59pm
That's roughly the closing speed of a head on in a highway accident; (sometimes, it's even more; 220Km+)
wrong2,
Jan 13, 3:13pm
thats the thing that Everyone should be made to realise
people dont have a clue about the violence untill they have experienced it themselves
neville48,
Jan 13, 3:18pm
And if they drive properly and carefully and to the conditions of the road at the time they never will have to.
wrong2,
Jan 13, 3:19pm
yeah
its unbelieveable how people can crash at just the speed limit, especially in modern cars!
but saying they might never have too misses the point that its good for people to realise how vicious a crash can be
richard198,
Jan 13, 3:23pm
No. Not true. Many accidents are caused by only one driver with innocent drivers and quite often young children passengers being killed.
wrong2,
Jan 13, 3:32pm
what he said was completely true
barring medical conditions or mechanical failures theres no way to crash if his view is followed
mark.52,
Jan 13, 4:05pm
That'll buff out ok. Offers!
friendly_prawn,
Jan 13, 4:12pm
got to sayI dissagree. accidents are going to happen regardless of how careful people try to be. No one can be 100% careful all the time. Even the most careful or experienced of drivers are prone to momentary lapses of concentration . We cant stop accidents from happening no matter how caerful we try to be, we can only minimize them.
loonee-dial-111,
Jan 13, 4:38pm
kinetic energy is 1/2 mv2 which means the energy in a 100k head on is half the impact of a 200k crash into a brick wall, not the same. And the impact is absorbed by both cars, not one which means that:
The total energy absorbed by each car in a head on with both doing 100ks in the opposite direction is _on average_ that of.
A car hitting a brick wall at 100k.
In real life one car will absorb more energy than the other, so one will be like hitting a brick wall at 80k and the other at 110k say.
phillip.weston,
Jan 13, 4:39pm
Not true. The force of two cars colliding at 100km/h is not equal to 200km/h.
Probably a true argument, but getting pretty academic at the sorts of speeds you're mentioning. It's going to bloody hurt.
richard198,
Jan 13, 6:55pm
Total bullshit! So many innocent drivers and passengers have died thanks to drunk drivers crossing the centre line and leaving the innocent people with no escape.
richard198,
Jan 13, 6:56pm
"Roughly" was the key. Point taken though!
vtecintegra,
Jan 13, 6:59pm
Not even roughly. Assuming vehicles of equal mass of course - truck vs car will look far different.
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